Matrescence
A candid voice message becomes the starting point for an intimate exploration of “matrescence”: the life-altering transition into motherhood. Interweaving personal reflections with scientific discoveries, the film reveals how pregnancy reshapes the brain, body, identity and even cellular memory. Through a hypnotizing blend of hand-crafted animation techniques, archival processes and analog film, it captures motherhood as an ongoing state of transformation rather than a singular event.
Matrescence is part of Alambic, the NFB French Animation Unit’s creative lab for emerging filmmakers.
Matrescence is part of Alambic, the NFB French Animation Unit’s creative lab for emerging filmmakers.